The left revealed its limited mental capacity for logic again. This time, in the form of a celebration for the incarceration of Jan. 6 participants for violating terms of probation. This seems an odd stance considering many on the left want to abolish federal prisons via the BREATHE Act. If federal prisons are racist and should be abolished by the left's standards, why the Jan. 6 witch hunt?
Logic aside, on Thursday, Joe Biden's Justice Department decided to send a 69-year-old grandma to prison for the misdemeanor of trespassing and entering the Capitol building on Jan. 6. While some on Twitter agree that this is shameful to send "MAGA grandma" to prison for 60 days, others believe she should suffer the full 10-year maximum in federal prison.
Today, #LOCKHERUP is trending on Twitter. Here is how the empathy-deprived mess unfolded.
Joe Biden’s justice department is sending a 69 year old grandma with breast cancer to prison for 60 days for trespassing and entering the Capitol on January 6th. Shameful. pic.twitter.com/nSadgFAsH9
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 14, 2022
Lock her up now we don't care. She didn't GAF at that trial when she created this entire murder to happen. If 100+ year old Nazi guards can be locked up for being an accessory during the Holocaust, then so can she. Stop giving her cover lame ass media. #LockHerUpNow https://t.co/4yydMzOfIM
— Nicole's View 🇺🇲 (@BLKLiberation84) July 15, 2022
This sweet little old lady?
She fucked around…now she’s finding out. pic.twitter.com/YlnQ35hv92
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) July 15, 2022
This sweet little grandma? The one who posted that January 6–which she participated in—wasn’t going to be a fun Trump rally, it was going to be a WAR? https://t.co/uvPM30HWbH pic.twitter.com/Oi7EK7Mzmd
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) July 15, 2022
If she's that sick she should have stayed home.
If you can't do the time, then don't do the crime. Blame trump.
— 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐞𝐁 ❤ (@i_joeb) July 14, 2022
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"The View" abruptly cut to commercial Tuesday amid an intense interview with a conservative guest who was defending her decision not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Conservative Jedediah Bila, a former Fox News host, appeared on "The View" to promote her new book, "Dear Hartley." Sometime during the segment, co-host Joy Behar said it was time to "address the elephant in the room."
Behar was referring to the fact that Bila was not present in the studio. In fact, Bila was not permitted to appear on-set because she is not vaccinated, and as Behar noted, ABC has a "very strict policy" that everyone in its studio must be vaccinated against COVID-19.
"Why didn't you get it?" Behar asked, after repeating guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that people vaccinated against COVID-19 are significantly less likely to be hospitalized from COVID complications or die from COVID.
"I am not a candidate for this vaccine," Bila responded, explaining she has received a medical exemption from her doctor, which she said was endorsed by other doctors.
"I also have sky-high, multi-tier, multi-faceted natural immunity, very, very high, that has also been proven, it has been shown, and it has been substantiated by letters from these doctors," Bila explained. "So, for me, personally, this vaccine poses a greater risk than a benefit. I am also not a risk to any of you."
"My point about all of this is: I am not anti-vax. What I really want is for people to make these decisions for themselves," Bila added. As she endorsed personal choice, audio picked up one of the show's co-hosts loudly groaning dismissively in the background.
"However, I do oppose mandates," Bila continued. "I oppose them on the fact that — let's look at the science. This is a vaccine created to prevent severity of disease and to prevent hospitalization ... but the vaccine does not prevent you from getting COVID and does not prevent you from transmitting COVID."
That's when the fireworks began.
"Oh, my goodness!" Behar objected. "No, that's not so. C'mon! You've been at Fox TV too long."
So @JedediahBila went on The View shared 100% factual covid data and they cut her off. Watch this:pic.twitter.com/aUVyhLPci6
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1637090767
Bila appealed to the CDC itself, explaining the CDC recommends vaccinated people wear face masks indoors because being vaccinated does not prevent someone from transmitting COVID.
Co-host Sunny Hostin then interjected.
"You know what Jed, you know what Jed: 762,000 people have died from COVID," Hostin said. "We've been friends a long time, I just don't understand why you would choose to prioritize your personal freedom over health and safety of others."
"I just don't really think we should allow this kind of misinformation," Hostin continued. "We've had the United States surgeon general debunk everything that you've just said. And I just don't think we should allow this misinformation on our air."
Then co-host Whoopi Goldberg intervened, abruptly ending the tense exchange.
"This should sound very familiar to you, Jed, this should sound very familiar to you: We have to go to break," Goldberg said.
The CDC re-implemented its indoor face mask guidance regardless of vaccination status over the summer in areas of the U.S. with high community transmission precisely because the agency said that being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 does not necessarily stop someone from transmitting the virus.
The CDC's website currently states:
For the Delta variant, early data indicate vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with Delta have similar levels of viral RNA and culturable virus detected, indicating that some vaccinated people infected with the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 may be able to transmit the virus to others.
The CDC also admits, as Bila said, that being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 does not prevent someone from becoming infected.
"Since vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infection, some people who are fully vaccinated will still get COVID-19," the CDC states.
Unfortunately, the exact number of "breakthrough cases" is not known because of poor data collection. The CDC's most recent data indicate that through Sept. 4, the U.S. experienced more than 100 breakthrough cases per 100,000 people.
However, that data is not entirely reliable because it is based only on 16 states, or approximately 30% of the population. The true breakthrough case rate, then, is plausibly higher.
The video of podcaster Joe Rogan taking to task CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta over his network's "lie" that Rogan took "horse de-wormer" to battle his COVID-19 infection — when, in fact, his ivermectin was prescribed by a doctor — is pretty stunning to watch.
As most folks still willing to embrace the truth know by now, there's ivermectin for animals and ivermectin for humans. And no, humans shouldn't take the ivermectin for animals.
"Do you think that that's a problem that your news network lies?" Rogan asked Gupta. "First of all it was prescribed to me by a doctor."
"Yeah, they shouldn't have said that," Gupta replied "If you got a human pill — because there were people that were taking the veterinary medication, and you're not obviously; you got it from a doctor, so it shouldn't be called that."
Gupta then tried to change the subject, but Rogan wouldn't let him off the hook just yet.
"Does it bother you that the news network you work for out and out lied?" Rogan asked him. "Just outright lied about me taking horse de-wormer?"
Gupta confessed again: "They shouldn't have said that."
"Why did they do that?" Rogan asked.
"I don't know," Gupta answered.
"You didn't ask?" Rogan replied incredulously. "You're the medical guy over there."
"I didn't ask," Gupta responded contritely. "I should have asked before coming on your podcast."
Joe Rogan asks Sanjay Gupta if it bothers him that CNN outright lied about Rogan taking horse dewormer to recover f… https://t.co/1nvKUS3wES
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1634179170.0
Wow! Could that mean we might actually be getting somewhere with embracing facts, ending spin, and conducting proper journalism?
Apparently no.
Because Gupta appeared on Don Lemon's CNN show later Wednesday, and the pair proceeded to completely gloss over the network's assertion that Rogan took horse de-wormer and ignored the fact that Rogan got a doctor's ivermectin prescription for human consumption.
"[Rogan] did say something about ivermectin that I think wasn't actually correct about CNN and lying," Lemon told Gupta, adding that "ivermectin is a drug that is commonly used as a horse de-wormer. So, it is not a lie to say that the drug is used as a horse de-wormer. I think that's important. And it is not approved for COVID. Correct?"
Gupta replied, "That's right. That's correct. It is not approved for COVID. And, you're right. I mean, the FDA even put out a statement ... that said 'you're not a horse, you're not a cow, stop taking this stuff'" in reference to ivermectin.
The doctor continued, saying "now I think what Joe's point is" before Lemon cut him off — perhaps Gupta was about to bring up the fact that Rogan took ivermectin for humans. But we'll never know.
"It's been approved for humans but not necessarily for COVID, right?" Lemon said, failing to clarify that Rogan actually did take the proper prescription as opposed to the one for animals.
"That's correct," Gupta replied. "It's been used for a parasitic disease for something called river blindness, and it's been very effective for that. But, you know, just because it works for one thing doesn't mean it works for something else. And there are still a few ongoing clinical trials around ivermectin. But for the most part, if you look at the data, there's no evidence that it really works here."
He continued saying that when Rogan "got sick, he took ivermectin." Again, no mention that it was properly prescribed by a doctor. Gupta added that "he also took monoclonal antibodies, which is, you know, an infusion of these antibodies. So, he took both those things. It's very likely it was the monoclonal antibodies that made him feel better so quickly."
"I will talk to them," @DrSanjayGupta told @JoeRogan after Gupta said on the podcast that it was wrong for CNN to d… https://t.co/41iCUZ4jE7
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) 1634237432.0
CNN talking heads could legitimately argue all day long that the FDA has discouraged ivermectin use to treat COVID-19 — that's factual. They could legitimately argue some humans are taking it improperly — that's factual.
But saying Rogan used horse de-wormer isn't factual. When a human is medically prescribed ivermectin, it's for humans, not horses or other animals. But CNN indeed downplayed that last month, as Anderson Cooper — on top of a headline reading, "Joe Rogan announces he has COVID; praises horse dewormer ivermectin" — said the drug is "more often used to de-worm horses."
CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter echoed that spin: "But when you have a horse de-worming medication that's discouraged by the government that actually causes some people in this crazed environment we're in to actually want to try it, that's the upside-down world we're in with figures like Joe Rogan."
At least the physician on the panel, Dr. Leana Wen, admitted that ivermectin can be prescribed for humans — but again, no clarifying words that Rogan received the medication properly.
Joe Rogan says he tested positive for Covid-19youtu.be
All of which might explain why Rogan also told Gupta during his podcast, "My point is you're working for a news organization. If they're lying about a comedian taking horse medication, what are they telling us about Russia? What are they telling us about Syria? Do you understand that that's why people get concerned about the veracity of the news?"
There was a tense exchange between Joe Rogan and CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. The massively popular podcast host confronted Gupta about CNN's lying about Rogan using "horse dewormer" after falling ill with coronavirus.
Last month, Rogan announced that he contracted COVID-19. The stand-up comedian said he "threw the kitchen sink" at the respiratory disease – including monoclonal antibodies and the controversial anti-parasite drug ivermectin. Rogan skewered CNN for the network's repeated claims that the UFC color commentator was using "horse dewormer" and even floated the idea of suing the cable news network for falsely saying that he was taking a veterinary medicine and not the human version.
In the most recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," the podcast host grilled Gupta about CNN's lies about him using "horse dewormer."
Gupta told Rogan, "By the way, I'm glad you're better."
"Thank you," Rogan responded. "You're probably the only one at CNN who's glad. The rest of them are all lying about me taking horse medication."
"That bothered you," Gupta said while grinning.
"It should bother you too," Rogan fired back. "They're lying at your network about people taking human drugs versus drugs for veterinary."
Gupta admitted, "Calling it a 'horse dewormer' is not a flattering thing, I get that."
"It's a lie. It's a lie on a news network … and it's a lie that they're conscious of. It's not a mistake," Rogan said, noting that ivermectin was prescribed to him by a doctor. "They're unfavorably framing it as veterinary medicine."
Gupta attempted to justify CNN's misclassification by referencing a "snarky" statement released by the Food and Drug Administration about ivermectin that said: "You are not a horse. You are not a cow."
Rogan asked, "Why would you say that when you are talking about a drug that's been given out to billions and billions of people?"
"A drug that one of the inventors won a Nobel Prize in 2015," Rogan noted.
"A drug that has been shown to stop viral replication in vitro. ... Why would they lie and say that's horse dewormer? I can afford people medicine, motherf***er. This is ridiculous! It's just a lie!"
Rogan said CNN host Brian Stelter was "gleeful" over Rogan's positive COVID-19 diagnosis. Rogan slammed CNN for not reporting that he tested negative for COVID-19 "five days later" and "felt great" following his treatment.
He continued to question CNN's chief medical correspondent, "Don't you think that a lie like that is dangerous on a news network when you know that they know they're lying? ... Do you think that that's a problem that your news network lies?"
Rogan challenged Gupta, "My point is you're working for a news organization. If they're lying about a comedian taking horse medication, what are they telling us about Russia? What are they telling us about Syria? Do you understand that that's why people get concerned about the veracity of the news?"
Gupta finally confessed, "They shouldn't have said that." Gupta said he "didn't know" why the network spread the "horse dewormer" lie.
Joe Rogan asks Sanjay Gupta if it bothers him that CNN outright lied about Rogan taking horse dewormer to recover f… https://t.co/1nvKUS3wES
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1634179170.0
Rogan also confronted Gupta on the neurosurgeon's recommendation that children get vaccinated.
.@joerogan challenges TV doctor @drsanjaygupta on forcing children to get vaccinated.It's as if it's the first ti… https://t.co/7s7d2u3yIM
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) 1634160600.0
Rogan also pressed Gupta about the possibility of the Wuhan lab-leak theory in relation to gain-of-function research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The Questions Around Gain of Function Research www.youtube.com
Following the release of the interview on Spotify, Gupta called "The Joe Rogan Experience" – which is one of the world's most popular podcasts with over 200 million monthly downloads in 2019 – a "lion's den."
"I realized that if I was serious about trying to communicate public health, I needed to go to a less comfortable place," Gupta explained.
"I walked into the lion's den and spoke with @joerogan on his podcast for more than 3 hours — vaccines, ivermectin, and much more. Friends tried to get me to turn down his invite, but ultimately I'm glad I did it," Gupta said.
"When I told Joe early in the podcast that I didn't agree with his apparent views on vaccines against Covid, ivermectin and many things in between, part of me thought the MMA, former Taekwondo champion might hurtle himself across the table and throttle my neck," Gupta said of Rogan. "But, instead he smiled, and off we went."
You can watch the entire "Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Sanjay Gupta below.
President Joe Biden on Thursday falsely claimed that individuals vaccinated against COVID-19 "cannot spread" the virus to others.
The president was speaking in Elk Grove, Illinois, touting his administration's implementation of vaccine mandates for federal workers and active-duty military and push to mandate large businesses when he made the questionable remarks.
"We have to beat this thing," Biden said. "That's why I've had to move toward requirements that everyone get vaccinated."
"My administration is now requiring federal workers to be vaccinated. We've also required federal contractors to be vaccinated. If you have a contract with the federal government, working for the federal government, you have to be vaccinated," he continued. "We're requiring active duty military to be vaccinated."
"We're making sure health care workers are vaccinated," he added. "Because if you seek care at a health care facility, you should have the certainty that the pro- — the people providing that care are protected from COVID and cannot spread it to you."
Following the speech, conservative political and sports commentator Clay Travis uploaded a video of the president's remarks to Twitter calling into question his specific claims, among other things.
"Joe Biden falsely says covid vaccinated people can't spread the virus. That's a lie," Travis wrote. "Also he can't even read off a teleprompter. This just keeps getting more embarrassing."
Joe Biden falsely says covid vaccinated people can’t spread the virus. That’s a lie. Also he can’t even read off a… https://t.co/KGvXHzE6Wc
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1633639861.0
The president's remarks are at odds with present conclusions drawn by his own government.
In its latest guidance on the coronavirus Delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention acknowledged that "fully vaccinated people with Delta variant breakthrough infections can spread the virus to others."
The CDC's guidance is reflective of scientific studies which have found that both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals who test positive for COVID-19 infection carry a similar amount of viral load, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not.
Earlier data touted by the CDC may have suggested that wasn't the case, and so perhaps Biden was only reiterating what he had heard before. But the CDC's current guidance was updated in August, which should have given the president plenty of time to consult the science.
While public health experts maintain that COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing severe illness from the disease requiring hospitalization or causing death, it is simply not true that vaccinated individuals cannot spread the virus, especially as it pertains to the Delta variant.
Mainstream media outlets, if they were interested in doing their jobs, should be making it widely known that the president's conclusions on this matter, as articulated, are wrong.
Then again, it's not the first time that Biden has made this misleading claim about vaccines without much objection.
ESPN host Sage Steele revealed this week that she got a COVID vaccine shot required by her bosses, even though she "didn't want to do it," The Hill reported.
In an interview with former Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler on his podcast, "Uncut With Jay Cutler," which was posted Wednesday, the "SportsCenter" host lamented that the Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN, mandated the shots for all employees and explained that the only reason she took the shot was because of the company's "sick" and "scary" mandate.
Steele told Cutler that Disney had given employees until the end of September to get vaxxed or hit the bricks, so she took the jab, despite wanting to avoid it.
"I didn't want to do it," she told Cutler. "But I work for a company that mandates it, and I had until Sept. 30 to get it done, or I'm out."
She then offered Cutler a biting and honest assessment of Disney's command that all employees get vaccinated, calling the company's strong-arming "sick" and "scary."
"I respect everyone's decision, I really do, but to mandate it is sick, and it's scary to me in many ways," Steele said. "But I have a job, a job that I love and, frankly, a job that I need.
"I'm not surprised it got to this point, especially with Disney, I mean a global company like that," she added, noting that her problem is not with the vaccine but with the mandate.
"The mandate is what I really have an issue with," Steele said. "I don't know what comes next, but I do know for me personally, I feel defeated."
"It's one thing with masks," she said, adding, "It's another thing when you force this."
Relevant portion begins at the 48:30 mark:
This isn't the first time Steele has made public statements to challenge the COVID narrative promoted by the federal government.
Last week, she mocked mask mandates for children in response to a tweet comparing the number of kids shot in Chicago this year compared to the total number of children who have died by COVID-19 nationwide.
"KIDS. SHOT. The sick trend continues as it has for YEARS in Chicago," Steele wrote. "Funny how no one talks about it publicly..much less does anything about it. But yes -- let's keep masking up our children! SMH. Once again, when facts don't fit the narrative."
@ClayTravis KIDS. SHOT. The sick trend continues as it has for YEARS in Chicago. Funny how no one talks about… https://t.co/dCMb7BmkwJ
— Sage Steele (@sagesteele) 1632427687.0
And on Tuesday, she retweeted NBA star Jonathan Isaac of the Orlando Magic, who wrote, "Misrepresentation only allows for others to attack straw men, and not reason with the true ideas and heart of their fellow man. It helps no one! True journalism is dying! I believe it is your God given right to decide if taking the vaccine is right for you! Period!" the New York Post reported.
Outkick founder and conservative sports radio host Clay Travis spoke out in opposition to mask mandates at a raucous Tennessee school board meeting Tuesday night, where board members eventually voted to institute mask requirements inside certain schools.
Williamson County Schools, where two of Travis's children attend, voted on Tuesday to require masks for students, staff, and visitors inside district elementary schools while leaving masks optional for middle schools and high schools.
But before the vote, a large crowd had gathered both inside and outside of the building where the board meeting took place. During the meeting, several parents, including Travis, urged the board to take a different course.
"You all should be ashamed about the choices you are about to make," Travis said during his speech, foreshadowing the board's ultimate decision.
"We teach our kids that facts matter; that's why they go to school," he continued. "The facts are these: Masks don't work. There isn't a single scientific data that has ever proven that masks work."
Here’s my full statement against masks @WCSedu tonight. So impressed by all the parents who came out tonight to spe… https://t.co/XoEKK9zWCJ
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1628645177.0
"Also let's talk about risk analysis, which is the key," he added. "I feel bad for all these people walking around in masks engaging in cosmetic theater thinking that they are making a difference against COVID — they aren't. Here's the truth, our kids, under 25 years old, one in a million chance that they are going to die of COVID. They are more likely to be struck by lightning ... they are more likely to die of the seasonal flu."
"Have any of you ever mandated masks for the seasonal flu?" Travis went on to say. "Well, shame on you, because every kid in Williamson County Schools has been under more danger from the seasonal flu every year than they are for COVID."
"I would tell every parent here, don't let your kids wear masks. Refuse! Refuse!" he shouted as he concluded his speech and walked away from the podium to loud cheering from community members.
Later, after the vote, Travis blasted the board's decision to require masks for 5- to 11-year-olds as "unscientific madness."
So @WCSedu put a mask mandate in place only for elementary school students, those 5-11 years old, the school ages l… https://t.co/p8d81uIQV6
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) 1628653348.0
Williamson County Schools Education Board is just one of many school boards across the country that is revisiting rules on masks ahead of the fall semester.
In response to the spread of the delta variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidance advising K-12 students, staff, and visitors to wear masks in school buildings — even if they're vaccinated.
The new guidance comes even as vaccines have become widely available and children have shown to be more resistant to the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
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